Word: drayton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...
...follows: (The stars denote the new appointments.) Apley 1 *R. K. Lamb 1G. Apthoep 12 J. H. Perkins, 2nd 2L. Beck 25 *R. H. Field Sp.L. Beck 22 *M. A. Cheek 1G.B. Claverly 23 *C. McK. Norton 1L Claverly 44 Davidson Sommers 3L. Dana 37 *T. L. M. Newton Drayton 8 *Humphrey Slatter Jr. 1L. Dunster 23 Asst. Dean Henry Chauncey Gore A25 G. G. Benedict 4G. Gore B12 *W. S. Youngman Jr. 1L. Gore C33 F. B. Lee 2L. Gore D24 E. H. Dewey 4G. Gore E24 Prof. E. P. Kohler 5 Linden St. *James L. Reed 1L. Little...
Upon the invitation of the Department of English, Professor W. B. Drayton Henderson of Dartmouth College will read from his recently published poem. "The New Argonantica", next Thursday in Emerson...
Divorced. Henry Coleman Drayton of Manhattan & Newport, socially prominent cousin of Yachtsman William Vincent Astor; by Mrs. Catherine Livingston Hamersley Drayton. Said Mrs. Drayton: "He fell asleep constantly at dinners, teas, bridge, the opera - everywhere we went to gether. ... I finally became hysterical...
...reason given was not the well known fact that many a shipment consigned to "Cuba," "Mexico." "Nassau," etc. etc., was going straight across the water to Detroit. But National Revenue Minister Euler represented that Canada's export tax on liquor was being consistently evaded. Chairman Sir Henry Drayton of the Ontario (provincial) Liquor Control Board, also complained that export liquor was being smuggled back into Canada, often "cut" in the dreadful U. S. bootleg way, and distributed through unlicensed channels...